Arduino and Kinect Projects: Design, Build, Blow Their Minds (Technology in Action)

When you’ve carried out some Arduino tinkering and questioned how you could possibly incorporate the Kinect―or the opposite manner round―then this e book is for you. The authors of Arduino and Kinect Tasks will present you the way to create 10 wonderful, inventive initiatives, from easy to advanced. You will additionally learn the way to include Processing in your venture design―a language similar to the Arduino language.

The ten initiatives are rigorously designed to construct in your expertise at each step. Beginning with the Arduino and Kinect equal of “Howdy, World,” the authors will take you thru a various vary of initiatives that showcase the large vary of prospects that open up when Kinect and Arduino are mixed.

Gesture-based Distant Management. Management units and residential home equipment with hand gestures.  Kinect-networked Puppet. Play with a bodily puppet remotely utilizing your entire physique.  Temper Lamps. Construct your individual set of responsive, gesture controllable LED lamps. Drawing Robotic. Management a drawing robotic utilizing a Kinect-based tangible desk.  Distant-controlled Car. Use your physique gestures to regulate a sensible automobile. Biometric Station. Use the Kinect for biometric recognition and checking Physique Mass Indexes.  3D Modeling Interface. Discover ways to use the Arduino LilyPad to construct a wearable 3D modelling interface.  360º Scanner. Construct a turntable scanner and scan any object 360º utilizing just one Kinect.  Delta Robotic. Construct and management your individual quick and correct parallel robotic.  

Writer ‏ : ‎ Apress; 1st ed. version (March 20, 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 416 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1430241675
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1430241676
Merchandise Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.72 kilos
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.01 x 0.94 x 10 inches